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Gov. Snyder makes it official: He'll run for office again

For months, Gov. Rick Snyder's campaign team has been working, campaign ads have been produced and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley has been campaigning for his spot on the ticket.

But Snyder hadn't officially announced a run for a second term — until Thursday night.

Snyder will kick off his re-election campaign Monday in Detroit during an event at James Group International. It will be the first of six campaign stops over a two-day period. He will travel to Lansing and Grand Rapids later that day.

Tuesday, Snyder's campaign will travel to Traverse City and Frankenmuth and end with a stop at the Oakland Community College campus in Farmington Hills.

The campaign stops, aside from the final stop at OCC, will take place at family businesses that have benefited from Snyder administration policies, according to his campaign.

The two-day tour that begins Monday will follow an ad Snyder's campaign is running during Sunday's Super Bowl.

Snyder's initial campaign for governor took off four years ago after the largely unknown venture capitalist and former president of Gateway Computers aired a commercial during the Super Bowl in which he introduced himself to voters in the state as "one tough nerd."

"After cutting over $1 billion from education and taxing seniors' retirement to pay for a huge corporate tax break that's not creating jobs, it's no surprise that the governor is so anxious to whitewash his record," Pohl said. "The people of Michigan won't be fooled."